LGC Future Leaders Network
Diana Terris –
Chief Executive Warrington BC
A personal perspective on
leadership
Spot the difference
• Transactional leaders work within the
organisational culture as it exists
• Transformational leaders change the
organisational culture
Your Choice
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How you use your skills
What behaviours you adopt
How much energy you put in
What you expect of yourself and what you
expect of others
Transformational Leadership
• Leaders arouse emotions in their followers which motivates them to
act beyond the framework of what may be described as exchange
relations
• Leadership is proactive and forms new expectations in followers
• Leaders are distinguished by their capacity to inspire and provide
individualised consideration, intellectual stimulation and idealized
influence to their followers
• Leaders create learning opportunities for their followers and
stimulate followers to solve problems
• Leaders possess good visioning, rhetorical and management skills,
to develop strong emotional bonds with followers
• Leaders motivate followers to work for goals that go beyond selfinterest
My thought for the Day
I believe
• People will follow a person who inspires
them.
• A person with vision and passion can
achieve great things.
• The way to get things done is by injecting
enthusiasm and energy.
We all need a vision to follow
• Transformational Leadership starts with
the development of a vision,
• A view of the future that will excite and
convert potential followers.
• This vision may be developed by the
leader, by the senior team or may emerge
from a broad series of discussions.
• The important factor is the leader buys into
it, hook, line and sinker.
Visible Leading
• The final stage is to remain up-front and central during the action.
• Transformational Leaders are always visible and will stand up to be
counted rather than hide behind their managers.
• They show by their attitudes and actions how everyone else should
behave.
• They also make continued efforts to motivate and rally their
followers, constantly doing the rounds, listening, soothing and
enthusing.
• It is their unswerving commitment as much as anything else that
keeps people going, particularly through the darker times when
some may question whether the vision can ever be achieved.
• If the people do not believe that they can succeed, then their efforts
will flag.
• The Transformational Leader seeks to infect and reinfect their
followers with a high level of commitment to the vision.
How to sustain motivation
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Get out and about
Visit teams
Ask to do the job for a morning
Listen to people
Invite employees in to meet you
Transformational Leaders balance their attention
between action that creates progress and the mental
state of their followers.
• More than other approaches, they are people-oriented
and believe that success comes first and last through
deep and sustained commitment.
• In short, transformational leaders are
exceptionally motivating, and they're
trusted.
• When your team trusts you, and is really
"fired up" by the way you lead, you can
achieve great things!
• When you leave here, and everyday, you
have a choice – what’s yours?